odmowa — meaning in English

English meaning

• denial noun A refusal to admit that something is true.
• negation noun The act of negating something.
• refusal noun The act of saying no to a request, offer, or demand.
• rejection noun The act of refusing or turning down something or someone.

Senses

odmowa is used for these senses in English:

• denial (psychology) A defense mechanism involving a refusal to accept the truth of a phenomenon or prospect.
• negation (countable) A denial or contradiction.
• refusal The act of refusing.
• rejection The act of rejecting.

denial — full definition

1. noun A refusal to admit that something is true.
2. noun A refusal to accept an unpleasant truth or reality, often as a psychological coping mechanism.
3. noun A refusal to grant or provide something requested.

negation — full definition

1. noun The act of negating something.
2. noun A denial or contradiction.
3. noun A proposition which is the contradictory of another proposition and which can be obtained from that other proposition by the appropriately placed addition, or insertion, of the word "not". (Or, in symbolic logic, by prepending that proposition with the symbol for the logical operator "not".)
4. noun The logical operation which obtains such (negated) propositions.

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